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Assistant Professor of Dramaturgy Jeanmarie Higgins will present “The Glas Nocturne: Theatre at Home as Sustainable Production Practice” in the curated paper panel, (On the Way) Home: TRANSience in Performance, Performing TRANSience, at the American Society for Theatre Research conference in Minneapolis, MN, November 3-6. Dr. Higgins’s presentation concerns the 2016 production of Seattle based […]

AGA Collaborative, which includes Associate Professor of Dance Gretchen Alterowitz, along with Alison Bory and Amanda Hamp, will present the trio’s newest work, win.place.show., at Davidson College on Friday, September 2, and Saturday, September 3. The performances take place at 7:30 pm in the Barber Theatre in Cunningham building. A trio of artist/scholars who collaborate […]

Faculty in the School of Architecture will present at several national and international conferences this fall: Associate Professor Thomas Forget will present “Housing Inquiry: Changes in Contemporary Urban Living” at the Culture in Urban Space Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark (August 24-26); Associate Professor Jefferson Ellinger will present “Urban Vertical Farming” at the Association of Collegiate […]

The independent choral group Sine Nomine, led by Associate Professor of Voice Alissa Deeter and music alumnus Dareion Malone, with Mark Johanson, will perform a program in recognition of the 15th anniversary of 9/11. Featuring Morton Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna (1997), the program will be performed twice: on Saturday, September 10, at 7:30 pm at Mt. […]

The College of Arts + Architecture is pleased to announce that The Wells Fargo Foundation will sponsor a unique project led by the UNC Charlotte Department of Dance. The project, Tracing Modern Dance, is centered on the reconstruction of Tracer, a lost work by modern dance choreographer Paul Taylor, and includes the first-ever reconstruction residency […]

Associate Professor of Art Marek Ranis will present his research at the 2016 Arctic Circle Assembly, to be held in Reykjavik, Iceland, October 7-9. Ranis will participate in the session, At the Center of Periphery: Social Justice and Social Action in the Arctic. The Arctic Circle Assembly is the largest international gathering on the Arctic, […]

A new book by Professor of Theatre and Film Mark Pizzato was published earlier this year by Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC. Beast-People Onscreen and in Your Brain: The Evolution of Animal-Humans from Prehistoric Cave Art to Modern Movies draws together the diverse disciplines of anthropology, neuroscience, psychology, aesthetics, and performance studies to examine […]

The Storrs Gallery will present work from College of Arts + Architecture-led summer study tours in the Global Studies Exhibition, August 26-September 9. The College operated study abroad programs in Italy, Brazil, and Korea this summer, with more than 50 students participating. ROME, ITALY Based in Palazzo Cenci-Bolognetti, the 2016 Rome Program was led by […]

Recent graduate Hamilton Ward won an award for Excellence in Experimental Film at the Vision6 Film Festival at UNC Wilmington last spring. The short film, Ronnie Ward – Brewton, AL, is a narrated recollection of the death of an infant boy, using burnt found footage. Ward’s current film work explores Southern folklore. Another film, Miss […]

Work by Associate Professor of Art Marek Ranis is part of an international exhibition in the Anchorage Museum in Anchorage, Alaska. The contemporary art exhibition, View From Up Here: The Arctic at the Center of the World, presents photographs, film, installations, and sculpture by 14 artists who come from Canada, Europe, and the United States. […]